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Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 87, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, happy It’s Officially Too Hot Now Week, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading about Sabrina Carpenter and Khaby Lame and…

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Denmark wants to replace Windows and Office with Linux and LibreOffice as it seeks to embrace digital sovereignty

Denmark wants out of Microsoft’s grip, turning to Linux and LibreOffice for independence The Danish government is choosing open source over vendor lock-in and foreign tech control LibreOffice might be free, but can it match Microsoft Office’s compatibility? Denmark is embarking on an ambitious effort to reduce its reliance on proprietary software from foreign tech…

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Silicon Motion MonTitan SSD can be rewritten over almost 2000 times but I fear that in the battle against NAND vendors like Samsung, it’s just too little too late

MonTitan SSD shows impressive specs but may have missed timing window Silicon Motion faces tough competition from vertically integrated NAND manufacturers Strong controller performance may not be enough in today’s AI market Silicon Motion’s MonTitan SSD platform is finally getting a full performance breakdown after years of trade show previews, and while the results impress…

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Tanks, guns and face-painting

Of all the jarring things I’ve witnessed on the National Mall, nothing will beat the image of the first thing I saw after I cleared security at the Army festival: a child, sitting at the controls of an M119A3 Howitzer, being instructed by a soldier on how to aim it, as his red-hatted parents took…

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No Kings: protests in the eye of the storm

Demonstrators in Los Angeles marched alongside an inflatable Donald Trump baby dressed in a diaper. As President Donald Trump kicked off a birthday military parade on the streets of Washington, DC, what’s estimated as roughly 2,000 events were held across the US and beyond – protesting Trump and Elon Musk’s evisceration of government services, an…

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Tanks, guns and face-painting

Of all the jarring things I’ve witnessed on the National Mall, nothing will beat the image of the first thing I saw after I cleared security at the Army festival: a child, sitting at the controls of an M119A3 Howitzer, being instructed by a soldier on how to aim it, as his red-hatted parents took…

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